EPFL CS320 - Computer language processing, 2022

Course Description and Schedule

Lectures:

• Mondays 13:15-15:00 in INM 200

Labs or Exercises and First Lecture:

• Wednesday 8:15-10:00 in INM 202
• Thursday 8:15-10:00 in INM 202

Grading

The grade is based on a midterm (30%) as well as project work (70%) that has many aspects: the implementation in Scala, a written report, oral presentation, and answers to questions, in presentation and throughout the semester. There will be no written exam. Here is the weight of the milestones in the overall course grade:

• 30% Midterm on Monday 2022-11-14, 13:00-15:00 (see the archive of past exams)
• 10% Lab 1
• 10% Lab 2
• 10% Lab 3
• 10% Lab 4
• 10% Lab 5
• 20% Lab 6 (Compiler extension, customized)

For the final Lab 6, each group will need to present the project in a slot in one of the last two weeks of the semester. The final report on the project will need to handed in after the end of the semester, by 2023-01-09 but the students are encouraged to complete it during the semester.

Staff

Books

My goal is for lectures to be self-contained. The following books contain overlapping material with some recommendations for most relevant parts:

• Basics of Compiler Design. Read pages 9-88 (omit Section 2.8) for lexical analysis and parsing
• Modern compiler implementation in ML. Read Sections 2.1-2.4 for Lexical analysis, Sections 3.1-3.2 for parsing, and 5.3-5.4 as well as 16.1-16.3 for type checking
• Compilers, principle, techniques and tools

Schedule and Material

You are welcome to submit your final Lab 6 (report and code for the compiler extension) by the end of the semester but you can revise it without any penalty until we start grading it, on 9 January 2023.